Dear Didi

> Even if you never heard about hosted-engine in previous versions and 4.1
>  was your first attempt? Any suggestions for improvement to make it easier
>  to find?

Sorry to late reply. I notice that I forget to add "users <users@ovirt.org>" as a destination.

The inquiry of the other day was about oVirt 4.0.

Yesterday I installed 4.1 for the first time.

I think that if I had been able to deploy self hosted engine not only when reinstalling host

but also when adding new host, I could have noticed.

Or it may be useful to pop up the deployment method of self hosted engine
when adding new host is completed.

Regards
Tatsuya

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tatsuya <suginami@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-03-23 1:10 GMT+09:00
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] How to deploy hosted-engine to the second and later host machines
To: Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com>

Dear Didi

> e.g. that if the storage
> domain is not empty, a message will be emitted saying something like:
> "To add this host as an additional one to an existing hosted-engine HA
> cluster, please use the engine web administration ui or the API/SDK".

It seems to be a very appropriate explanation when reading after understanding,
but it may be better to ready specific steps.For example, this is one example among many:
"In particular, when creating a new host from the engine web administration ui,
please select "Deploy" on the self hosted engine tab."

Also, "hosted-engine --deploy --config-append=answers.conf" was an error from cli,
but "hosted-engine --deploy" wasn't an error, so I almost created a new hosted-engine
using "hosted-engine --deploy"  to the second and later host machines.
From the above, It wil be better to warn also when running "hosted-engine --deploy".

Regards
Tatsuya

2017-03-21 15:29 GMT+09:00 Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com>:

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Tatsuya <suginami@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear lan and Didi
>
>> Found a working option to get second and subsequent hosts deployed with
>> ovirt 4.1
>>
>> 1-Set second host into maintenance
>> 2-highlight second host and choose "Installation --> Reinstall", edit
>> params in popup and click OK
>> 3-Ignore warning that pops up and watch the vdsm.log or look for
>> "Installing" status in webui
>> 4-It should show you that the install is running, keep watching vdsm.log.
>> 5-Click 'ok' on warning and wait patiently for install to finish.
>>
>> Second node comes up and is active.
>
>> No, sorry for not being clear. I referred to the engine web admin ui
>> (and also API/SDK). Thanks, Ian, for your reply explaining this.
>
> I apologize for this late reply.I had been trying again from reinstalling
> the host.
>
> Thanks to you, I was able to install HostedEngine in second and subsequent
> hosts.
> I think that I could not find this option by myself.

Even if you never heard about hosted-engine in previous versions and 4.1
was your first attempt? Any suggestions for improvement to make it easier
to find?

>
> I'm grateful for your support.

You might want to open one or more RFEs for some clarifications in the
interface - both command line and cockpit - e.g. that if the storage
domain is not empty, a message will be emitted saying something like:
"To add this host as an additional one to an existing hosted-engine HA
cluster, please use the engine web administration ui or the API/SDK".

Best,
--
Didi